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Amara

The name Amara carries the meaning "Greek amaranthos, unfading", with roots in Greek. It has been climbing steadily, peaking most recently in the 2010s. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. Across the twelve decades this registry covers, it appears in 6 of them.

GreekGreek "amaranthos" – "unfading"
EtymologyAlso Igbo – "grace"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
0
1950s
0
1960s
30
1970s
214
1980s
531
1990s
1,428
2000s
4,376
2010s
5,882
Peaked in the 2010s · 12,461 total U.S. births since 1900